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IMC 2016: Sessions

Session 925: Migration, Borders, and Refugees in Medieval Central Europe: A Round Table Discussion

Tuesday 5 July 2016, 19.00-20.00

Sponsor:Medieval Central European Research Network (MECERN), Central European University, Budapest
Organiser:Balázs Nagy, Department of Medieval Studies, Central European University, Budapest
Moderator/Chair:Gerhard Jaritz, Department of Medieval Studies, Central European University, Budapest
Abstract

Migration, borders, and refugees play a particular role in today's Central European political, cultural, and social life and have developed to situations of crisis. The round table discussion is meant to analyse comparable realities in medieval Central Europe and to answer the question to which extent similar crises situations can be traced in the area during Middle Ages.

Participants include Emir Filipović (University of Eastern Sarajevo), Emilia Jamroziak (Technische Universität Dresden / University of Leeds), Felicitas Schmieder (FernUniversität Hagen), Dorottya Uhrin ( Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest), and Nada Zečević (University of Eastern Sarajevo).